Container Transferium confirmed for Alblasserdam

By on Jul 1, 2009

The town of Alblasserdam - east of Rotterdam - will get a Container Transferium (CT), following the signing of the founding agreement last week between the Dutch Transport Ministry and the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoRA)

The Binnenlandse Container Terminals Nederland (BCTN) will operate the terminal

Total costs for acquiring the land, a special berthing area and the superstructure are estimated €38 million

The terminal is scheduled to be open by end-2011

Within three years, the transferium should draw 200,000 TEU from road to water This equals some 10% of the number of container trucks on the A15 motorway

Trucks deliver to and collect at Alblasserdam The distance of approximately 50 km to the Maasvlakte is bridged by inland vessels The final destination and origin of the containers will usually not be far from the CT

The PoRA and APL, APM Terminals, ECT, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, MOL and Rotterdam World Gateway signed a Letter of Support to endorse the principle of the CT and to support the concept

BCTN already operates terminals in Nijmegen (eastern Netherlands), Den Bosch (south), Wanssum (southeast) and Hengelo (northeast)